staunchin a sentence
staunch as in: a staunch ally
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She is a staunch defender of free speech.staunch = firm and dependable
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She was a staunch supporter of same-sex marriage before it was legal.
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Frau Diller—the staunch Aryan corner-shop owner. (source)staunch = loyal and dependable
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In 1980, however, despite my father's staunch devotion to freedom and fairness, he was still a foreigner with an accent, an accent that after the Iranian Revolution was associated with all things bad. (source)staunch = firm
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...the Tucks were her friends. She had done it because—in spite of everything, she loved them. This of all things her family understood, and afterward they drew together staunchly around her. (source)staunchly = firmly and dependable
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I had the meanest old hillbilly staunchly in my corner, even if she was hundreds of miles away. (source)staunchly = firmly
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Staunch Catholic by the way. (source)Staunch = firmly loyal
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"That's right," said Ginny staunchly. (source)staunchly = firmly
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I didn't even have the strength to feel chagrin at embarrassing my queen and staunchest defender once again by providing a spectacle for the entire court of Eddis.† (source)
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I also remembered Roland, an upright Caribbean woman whose staunchness I admired.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He himself maintained that it was the ungodly ways of the East which drove him to search for a less sophisticated, stauncher-minded region; though I have heard it suggested that there came a point when his native parts refused to tolerate him any longer.† (source)
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If you wanted me dead, you had only to say the word, and one of these staunch friends of yours would gladly have given me a red smile. (source)staunch = loyal
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Rosaura was furious when she saw that Pedro and Tita were staunchly behind Esperanza. (source)staunchly = firmly
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Throughout everything, in fact, Isabelle had been her staunchest defender.† (source)
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Perhaps with any other man I might be a little anxious; but among the very few virtues possessed by your family and mine, dear, I think I may set staunchness.† (source)
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'There ain't,' said Sikes, fixing his eyes upon her, and muttering the words to himself; 'there ain't a stauncher-hearted gal going, or I'd have cut her throat three months ago.† (source)
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I have no bandage, nothing to staunch the flow of blood from his calf. (source)staunch = stop
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"But we don't have a firearm," Dad said again, trying to staunch their worries. (source)
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Now weaponless as well, the girl just stands there, trying to staunch the flow of blood pouring from her empty eye socket. (source)
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I pull off Rue's socks that I've been using for gloves and press them into my forehead, trying to staunch the flow of blood, but they're soaked in minutes. (source)staunch = stop
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I could staunch the bleeding, and allow the man to be transported by litter back to the castle. (source)
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